BHA TGA ON—BHA TKAL.
Hindus and 2034 Muhammadans; area of town
5723, namely, 2775
5060
site,
acres.
Bhdtgaon.
—Town
Native State of Nepal, and formerly the Brahmans of the country; the inhabitants
in the
favourite residence of the
now
377
Hinduized Newars. The population is estimated at Approximate lat. 27° 37' n., long. 85° 22' E. It is well kept, and has some fine old buildings. The old Mall dynasty of Bhatgaon, like those of Patan and Khatmandu, in the same valley, succumbed before the Gurkha invaders in a.d. 1768-69. The town is garrisoned by four regiments of infantry, numbering about 2000 fighting men. It is connected with Khatmandu, the capital of Nepal, by a bridged carriage road about 8 miles in length. There are no fortifications. Cooking utensils and other vessels of brass, copper, and bell metal are made here for home use and exportation to Tibet. are
chiefly
30,000.
Bhathan. Presidency
— Petty
State in Jhalawar District, Kathidwar,
consisting of
i
and
village,
2
Bombay
independent tribute-payers.
Estimated revenue ;^3i6, of w'hich ^^64 is paid as tribute to the British Government, and ^6 to the Nawab of Junagarh. Lat. 22° 41' 71° 54'
N., long.
Bhatl
.
E.
— The
coast-strip
30' to 22°
name given by the Muhammadan historians to the Lat. 20° of the Sundarbans from Hijili to the Meghna. 30' N., long. 88° to 91° 14' E. The name means ‘lowlands
overflowed by the
tide,’
Khulna and Bakarganj
Bhatkal
(Sanskrit
and
applied to the Sundarban tracts of
is still
Districts, Bengal.
name Manipura
).
—Town
in the
Honawar Sub-divi-
North Kdnara District, Bombay Presidency. Lat. 13° 59' n., long. Within a mile and a half of the mouth of a small stream 74° 34' 40" E. that falls into the Arabian Sea, about 64 miles south-east of Karwar. Population (1881) 5618, namely, 3064 Muhammadans, 2515 Hindus, There are 25 Jains, and 14 Christians; area of town site, 556 acres. 2 small and 2 large mosques and the Musalman population has the special name Nawdyat, said to mean newly arrived,’ owing to their being Sunni Persians, driven from the Persian Gulf by the persecution of their Shia brethren, in the eighth century. Many of these Nawayats are wealthy traders, and visit different parts of the country for business purposes, leaving their families at Bhatkal. There is a post-office. From the 14th to the i6th century, under the names of Batticala (Jordanus, 1321), Battecala (Barbosa, 1510), and Baticala (De Barros), Bhatkal was a flourishing centre of trade, where merchants from Ormuz and Goa came to load sugar and rice. In 1505, the Portuguese estabsion,
‘
Goa made
lished a factory at Batticala, but a few years later the capture of
(15
1
1)
by the
deprived the place of British to establish
its
importance.
an agency
at
Two
Bhatkal
attempts were
— the
first in
1638 by a
country association, the second in 1668 by the regular company, but
